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ANDREW BERRHAM.PNOTO-LFWO.WASHINGTON,D.C. I

NITED ST TES i ATENT' OFFICE,

MERRY-GO-ROUND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 558,114, dated April 14, 1896. Application filed January 27,1s94.. Serial No. 498,237. (No model.)

. go-round wherein figures of horses are caused to move around a central axis and receive not onlya circular, but an oscillating motion to resemble the movement of a horse, and may also receive vertical undulatory motions during the revolution of the horses to give a more perfecthorse motion, as in galloping, and also to cause the horses to leap over obstructions placed in their path, such as bars, bushes, or hurdles, and thus afford amusement when used as a toy or exercise and pleasant recreation when made upon a sufficiently large scale to admit of supporting either children or grown perto'is upon the horses.

Our invention consists in certain constructions and combinations of parts hereinafter particularly described and claimed, with reference to the accompanying drawing, which represents a side elevation of a merry-goround embodying our invention, showing the platform in section, the driving-shaft and supporting-gudgeon broken away, and the supplemental guide-plates shown by dotted lines.

The gudgeon A, supportedby a frame in the usual manner, (not shown in the drawing,) forms the central axis of the large balancewheel 13, which is connected by suspensionbars C with the revolving frame D,which supports the horse-figure frames E and carries the said frames and horses F around with the its revolutions.

The horses Fare modeled to represent a horse in the position of galloping, and the galloping motion is given to the figures by means of parallel vertically-moving bars E" E E coupled together by rocking links E to the ends of which brackets G are pivoted at g, which support upon their upturned ends 1 by means of pivotal or hinged connections 9 the forward and rear end of the horse.

The pivotal connections e e e of the vertically-moving frame-bars E E E and rock ing'parallel-motion links E", as well as the pivot g of the brackets G, are all preferably turned, pivot or stud bolts fitting in bored boxes which admit of a free articulation, and the upper ends of the said frame-bars E E E are supported in straps or mortises in the frame D, which will admit of a free vertical movement.

The middle vertical frame-bar E is longer than the outer bars E E and has an upper end support in a bracket H. (Shown by dotted lines in the drawing.) The lower end of the bars E E have bearings 2', which support the spindles of rollers I, and the latter rest upon an undulatory or waved track K, securelybolted to the base or ground concentric with and beneath the circular revolving frame D,which carries the said vertical frame bars, and by which means the said vertical bars are given a reciprocating motion and the rocking parallel-motion links E and horses F are given both avertical and a rocking motion, causing the latter to receive a motion closely resembling that of a galloping horse. Some of the undulations K are made higher than the undulations K which will cause the horses to jump higher and farther at such intervals, and obstructions'L, simulating a hedge, hurdle, or cross-bar placed across the path of the horse at said intervals, may thus be cleared by the horses in their leaping motion in a natural and fascinating manner.

A platform 'M is placed around the undulatory track beneath the path of the horses and will provide an outer guard and convenient means for mounting the horses.

The revolving frame D is connectedby gearing N, the shafting of which is broken away, and is driven in an y well-known or preferred manner.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A merry-go-round comprising a revolving frame carrying a vertically-reciprocating supporting-bar, and two parallel independent vertically-moving bars pivoted upon the supporting-bar by rocking parallel-motion links, and supported upon an undulatory track and horses carried by said bars and caused to receive a lifting as Well as rocking motion, substantially as described.

2. In a merry-go-round, the combination with the supporting-Wheel of the verticallymoving supporting-bar E, bracket H, vertically-moving" bars E E carrying rollers I, parallel-motion rocking links E pivoted at their middle portions to the bar E and at their ends to the bars E E an undulatory track 

